Sunday, June 15, 2008

darcs over FTP

I'm currently unable to access SSH, and suspect this situation will persist for most of the Summer. Most of my darcs repo's are behind SSH, so this presents a problem. I've been looking for a way to work with darcs over FTP, and have managed to get it going on Windows. The following are instructions for (1) me when I forget them and (2) any Windows users who want to follow the same path. If you are a Linux user, then similar information is available from this blog post.

Step 1: Install Sitecopy

Go to http://dennisbareis.com/freew32.htm and download and install SITECPY.

Add "C:\Program Files\SITECOPY" to your path.

Add "C:\Home" to a %HOME% variable.

Open up a command line and type:


c:\> mkdir home
c:\> cd home
c:\home> mkdir .sitecopy
c:\home> echo . > .sitecopyrc


Step 2: Prepare the FTP site

Go to the FTP site, and create a directory. In my particular example, I created darcs/hoogle so I could mirror the Hoogle repo.

Step 3: Configure Sitecopy

Edit the file "c:\home\.sitecopyrc" to contain:


site hoogle
server ftp.york.ac.uk
username ndm500
local C:\Neil\hoogle
remote web/darcs/hoogle
port 21


Obviously, substituting in your relevant details.

Step 4: Initialise Sitecopy

Type:


sitecopy --init hoogle


darcs push

Now to do a darcs push, you can type:


sitecopy --update hoogle


The first copy will take a long time, but subsequent copies should be a lot faster.

darcs pull

After all this, you can either pull using FTP, or if your FTP is also a web site, you can pull over http. For example:


darcs get http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ndm500/darcs/hoogle/

1 comment:

Andys Web said...

Hi,

I have also written a tutorial of making the SITECOPY work in Windows 7 as I had trouble in making it work @ first try.

Jut follow this link to view it: http://andyph.info/making-sitecopy-work-in-windows-7.html